about 24 hour ration packs

[mercury]

does anyone remember the pilchards in the 10 man rat packs ?

We had to dispose of them once , never found out why , we had to remove them from all the rat packs in fact


I often wonder if someone actually ate some and had the skitters

Seems unlikely though, after compo for a week

[Tab]

When I was in forces many of the ration packs were date stamped in the early 1940's which made them about 15 years old by the time they got to us.

[Dave.Mil]

Pilchards loved em, I was gunner on a squadron leaders tank in BATUS and he would'nt let me smoke in the tank so I used to eat pilchard sarny's all day after a couple of days of the tank smelling like a hamburg whores skivvies he gave in and let me smoke. I missed my pilchards though. We once had a squadron on Soltau that got a dodgy batch of margarine and nearly all the lads ended up with food poisoning.

[bootneck]

They last years... the oldest out of date one I ever had was best before 1987, I ate it in 1995!!

and look how sticky ended up

[mercury]

Remember the soya sossys ?

I had to do brekky once ( only once) and couldnt remember which sossys were soya and which were meat

We had a couple of veggies on that exercise who couldnt tell the difference either

[bootneck]

RAF Luqa Guard, 10 man rat packs, red salmon, god only knows why there was never any in the rat packs when i was, "CHEF"

[barryc]

Don't recall pilchards but do remember small tins of well boned kippers in the packs we had in Borneo; made a bloody nonsense of the no-cooking patrols as you could smell the things half a mile away as soon as the tin was opened.


Barry